Creating a Culture of Consent, One Class at a Time
What does it mean to create a culture of consent? In an era of #MeToo, and the challenges of male-female consent, I believe Treetop Yoga is one of the best places to help people learn how to say no, how to say yes, and how to receive. Since autumn 2018, I have...
Peace, Love, and Insulin
A sharp beep beep beep beep pierces through the silence of the room, reverberating off the studios walls and disturbing the serenity of svasana. UGHHHH I think to myself as my hand instinctively moves towards my stomach to cover the 3-inch circle of plastic adhered to...
Going Out Into the Universe
As a teenager, I would fix my gaze on the back of my eyelids when I couldn’t fall asleep. Initially I would see a relatively flat screen of mottled black and light, like an old UHF channel with no signal. Staring at this, I would wait for the moment the flat screen...
Home at the Top of the Tree
For over a decade, I have been practicing yoga in the different places that I have lived and traveled. Any time I relocated, I would search for a studio or two that I could use to settle back into my practice and find community. In 2017, I moved to Cape Ann and...